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Farming & the land, 1905

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Wool & Produce Wales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 7 February 1905 · page 3

THE Australian Mortgage, Land & Finance Co., Ltd., John Bridge & Co., Ltd., Dalgety & Co., Ltd., Goldsbrough, Mort and…

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That Rowdy Butter Factory Meeting. (To the Editor of the Singleton Argus.)

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 7 February 1905 · page 2

Dear sir,- As one who attended that meeting in my right as a shareholder and for the sole purpose of tading out how things were carried on (I have…

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The Transvaal and Farming

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 February 1905 · page 3

Sir Gilbert Parker, after four years investigation in the Transvaal and Orange River States, says their agricultural possibilities cannot compare with those of…

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Wheat and Wool

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 February 1905 · page 3

Wheat continues to arrive at Redfern large quantities. Yesterday the aggregate totalled over 1,000,000 bags for the current season. The total wool receipts amount…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 February 1905 · page 3

The New Zealand Loan and Mortgage Company reports:—At wool sale yesterday there was spirited competition, especially for seconds. The market was unchanged…

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Farmers' Produce Sales. Swan and Murray's Report

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 February 1905 · page 2

Exceptionally large supplies of produce were forward at our usual sales yesterday. A vary large supply of lucerne hay was forward, pumpkins, melons, and fruit being also well represented…

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Season's Wool and Wheat. Satisfactory Increase

The Scone Advocate · Friday 10 February 1905 · page 3

Large quantities of wheat continue to arrive at Darling Harbour. The aggregate is now over 1,000,000, bogs for the season. The wheat is coming…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Harrison, Jones & Devlin, Ltd., Report

The Scone Advocate · Friday 10 February 1905 · page 3

On Monday we submitted a catalogue of 1040 bales, comprising an irregular assortment with fow superior lines, all of which commanded keen…

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Mixed Farming at Bathurst

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 February 1905 · page 3

A paper in the February "Agriculture Ga[?]," under the name of W. H. Clarke, supplies some interesting particulars of the mixed farming work at Bathurst experimental Farm. The…

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The Wool Sales. London, February 3

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 February 1905 · page 2

The wool sales closed firm at above last week's prices. Compared with November, medium merinos were unchanged fault (best) were Old Cheaper, crossbreds were…

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The Farm and Garden. Dairy Quality in Bulls

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 February 1905 · page 13

Professor Hansen, of Bonn on the Rhine, has carried on some experiments in comparing different dairy bulls in terms of the milk producing qualities of their offspring…

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Wool and Produce. Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report under date February 4th:—

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 11 February 1905 · page 2

Wool.—We offered a catalogue of 1246 bales wool at Thursday's sales to a full attendance of buyers. Competition throughout was keen at prices equivalent to those…

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To the Editor. Co Operative Dairy Farming

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 14 February 1905 · page 2

Pursuant to advertisement it is my intention at the forthcoming mooting of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, to be held at Underbank, on the 17th inst, to…

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The Farm and Garden. Dairy Quality in Bulls

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 February 1905 · page 7

Professor Hansen, of Bonn on the Rhine, has carried on some experiments in comparing different dairy bulls in terms of the milk producing qualities of their offspring…

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A Big Cattle Muster

The Scone Advocate · Friday 17 February 1905 · page 4

"PAUL DELOS," a Western Queensland correspondent, wrote to the "South Australian Register" on January 20:—Few people, other than…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Winchcombe, Carson & Co. Ltd. Report

The Scone Advocate · Friday 17 February 1905 · page 2

Tuesday's sales concluded the Sydney weekly auctions, and the fortnightly series now take their place. It may be said that the 1904-5 wool clip has been…

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A Big Cattle Muster

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 February 1905 · page 10

"Paul Delos," a Western Queensland correspondent, wrote to the "South Australian Register" on January 20:—Few people other than those familiar with life in the back…

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A Wheat Corner

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 February 1905 · page 5

Reports from Chicago state that Charles Schwab, Gates, and others have formed a great wheat corner with resources £20,000,000. with object of forcing wheat to…

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Wool and Produce

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 18 February 1905 · page 2

Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report under date February 11th :— Wool.—We held our 16th sale of the season on Thursday, the 9th instant, when…

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Hay and Wool Presses

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 18 February 1905 · page 2

We have been requested to direct attention to the advertisement of Mr. C Koerstz, of Abattoirs Road, Pyrmont, Sydney, manufacturer of the Koerstz…

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